1981 Armenia mid-air collision

When

18 Jul 1981

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

40.10° N, 44.00° E

Description

mid-air collision

Deaths

4

Fatal aircraft accident over Soviet Armenia

The 1981 Armenia mid-air collision occurred on 18 July 1981 when a Soviet Air Defense Forces Sukhoi Su-15 crashed into the tail of a Transporte Aéreo Rioplatense Canadair CL-44 commercial transport which had strayed into Soviet airspace over the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. The three crew and one passenger on the Argentine aircraft died; the Soviet pilot was able to eject to safety.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в воздушном пространстве СССР, над территорией Армянской ССР был сбит тараном аргентинский транспортный самолёт, вторгшийся в воздушное пространство со стороны…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page